Advice to quit tobacco?

Decided this a.m. to quit chewing for good. I know it'll hit me when I get in the stand this fall with no dip to enjoy. Guess I can use tree bark instead. I know its for the better. ANy of you who chew(ed) and were able to quit?

lol....I told my shift partner to get ready, cause it's gonna be a long day working around me. I bought a can of jerky chew and a pack of bubble gum for the day. There's about three dips of Cope left in a can in my truck. Need to get rid of it.

i quit cold turkey one day. just decided i had enough, threw away the rest of my can, and haven't looked back. i have actually taken a couple of dips since i quit (about a year and a half ago), and they just don't sit right with me anymore.

you can do it, man. you just got to get it in your head you don't want to do it anymore.

I chewed Copenhagen Black (ummmm copenhagen !) I quit last year and have fallen off the wagon a few times. Being outdoors is the hardest part for me also. Standing in a stream fishing for small mouths sitting in my treestand.
It wasn't very hard to quit for me but I really do enjoy it even now. I just don't want to get back to the if I'm awake I've got a dip in part !

Good luck and don't make a big deal about it to everyone. No one even knew I was quitting I just did it. I see a lot of people tell everyone on earth and then it's the topic of conversation for every one you see. And if you have friends like mine who leave a can open on your desk or slip one in your truck so you can smell it...just to mess with you that won't help either !

I have heard of People putting a rubber band around their wrist, and when they wanted a smoke or chew they would snap the rubber band around their wrist, reason being that your body starts to associate that the carving results in a negative responce, Not sure if it would work or not.

What happend for me, I got a bad cold that I didn't shake for about 6 weeks. I didn't dip while I had the cold. As soon as I was feelin better, I found myself at the min-mart counter with a couple of cans of cope in my hand. And I started thinkin, I've gone with out for 6 weeks, mebbe I oughta quit. Well, I had one or two relapses since, but I've been off the stuff for quite a while now....

I've done it all, chewed, dipped, cigarettes, cigars, and pipe. I quit cold turkey almost 25 years ago and it was the best thing I did. Good luck to both of you and have faith you can kick it if you want to.

I quit 20 years ago - read a Reader's Digest Article about a boy in OK who died of mouth cancer - saw a picture of him after his surgery - he only lived a few months afterwards. Scared me enough to stay away. I know that isn't a very nice way to look at it, but if you see a picture of someone who had half their mouth cut off, it gives you some motivation.

i stopped chewin 32 days 23 hours 12 minuetes ago, but who is counting. decided it was going to be my new years resolution and then after lunch just stopped. i went and got some of the back off mint product for the psychological part of it all. now i don't use that stuff either. it is tuff. everytime someone starts dippin around me i want to so bad, but like hthrly7 said, i don't want to go back to if i am awake i have to have a dip in. figured after 17 years of that something was probably getting ready to need medical attention.

thanks dave, it's not easy and i still have the cravings but making it into a personal deal, i am just not going to let it beat me. had to get my competative nature going to stop. least this duck season coming up i won't have to take apart the calls to clean the tobacco out of them.:hysterical: